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title: In the colonial era (1521–1821) when Mexico was known as New Spain,… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: In the colonial era (1521–1821) when Mexico was known as New Spain, this central region became the Intendency of Mexico. Who acts: central region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico, sentence 33

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From Wikipedia, [«Mexico»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In the colonial era (1521–1821) when Mexico was known as New Spain, this central region became the Intendency of Mexico.

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**Who acts:** central region · **What happens:** know, become · **To what, where:** Mexico, Intendency, colonial era

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (central region), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Mexico:33
# text = In the colonial era (1521–1821) when Mexico was known as New Spain, this central region became the Intendency of Mexico.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	1521	1521	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	1821	1821	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Intendency	intendency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | Mexico |  |  |  | as New Spain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as spain=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | past | this central region | the Intendency of Mexico |  |  |  | in the colonial era *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in era=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Mexico», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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